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Your chest feels almost like an excavated cavity then, nearly hollow, but not quite; there is a rock that rests inside the confines of your ribs, a weight that presses against your lungs, filthy grit caged within the pristine milk white of bone. Your heart has stopped throbbing; it’s been swallowed whole, or plucked out, pricked with a pin and bled dry. Nothing inside anymore but a dead stone.

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No one expected everything in the Widow Douglas's will to go to the boy she took in some years ago. Scruffy in nature, a 17-year-old Huckleberry Finn wants nothing more than to be rid of his fortune and float away from St. Petersburg for good, but there's one reason he stays; Tom Sawyer.

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Less than a week left until Thanksgiving break. Just a bit more school to endure until devouring a 15-pound turkey over at Jim’s with his wife and children, including—that’s right—Huck Finn; discreetly exchanging knowing gazes across the table and giggling beneath the soft murmur of saying grace before meal, and trying at least five different kinds of pies within an hour. When the pleasant thought comes to mind, he decides he can muster up enough willpower to push himself through the slow torture just a bit longer.

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The baptism and the funeral had transpired only within a few months of each other. After the service, the reverend had embraced the young couple, each in turn, and offered every comforting verse from Scripture that he’d memorized by heart, ones that may have befit situations such as these, that dealt with grief and loss and suffering. They listened the best they could, which was not saying much. Becky could at least say that she’d tried; Tom simply refused.

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This was the plan.Huck was to blend into the middle of the battlefield, clothed in the enemy's uniform, be taken to their camp, and find the missing plans that would help end this vicious war.What was currently happening was very far from the plan.

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Abolitionist [ab-uh-lish-uh-nist] noun1.(especially prior to the Civil War) a person who advocated or supported the abolition of slavery in the U.S.2.As in, 1860 Missouri was not a good time to be an abolitionist. Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer both knew this, but went about anyway.

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From all the abuse and neglect this boy has received, Huck is scared and alone. He looks at himself as nothing but an unwanted foster kid who was taken away from his best friend when he was twelve, the only one who's ever uttered an "I love you" to him.Four years later, he's back in St. Petersburg, and back with the most important person in his life.

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In a world where magic is hidden, but no less dangerous, a man arises to take advantage of it like no one has before. What does he have to fear? The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen; it's what M calls them. Let's do a headcount here; Allan Quartermain, the master hunter; Captain Nemo, a living legend who kind of lives up to the legend; Dr. Henry Jekyll, a man with breathtaking personality issues; a pair of immortals, Mina Harker and Dorian Gray; Rodney Skinner, the invisible self-proclaimed gentleman thief; and last, but not least, Tom Sawyer, the young American agent. Added to this unique bunch is Marie-Sandrine Hargreaves, an expert in magic and the occult. They will need to become a team, but time is running out. They foe is gathering his strength. The fate of the world is at stake.